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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1931)
TIMES. WILLAMINA, OREGON Thursday, August 13, 1931 D A IR Y - FARM t FACTS POULTRY LET COWS BE DRY FALL EGG LAYING FULLY SIX WEEKS BRINGS IN PROFITS Need Rest Between Lacta Now Is Good Time to Plan tion Periods. for Hatching Pullet«. Overworked cows like overworked people innke vacations »how prolils, according Is Prof. II. A. Ilopper of the New York Hint« College of Agricul ture. Cows In poor coudltlon should have a r<* * * «t of two tnoiith» between lactutlon period«, and good cow« should real u minimum of six week«, he ad vises. It la not generally understood that when a cow la producing milk «he UHca Ihu mineral« from her hotly faster than they can he replaced. A cow producing 6,000 pound» of milk a yeur must manufacture 750 itounda of dry mailer, or more than la contained In the carcuaa of a 1,250-iMiund steer. If a cow la given till le or no rest, she enters the next lactation period In a weakened and rundown condition, with the result that she can produce less milk than she could have had »he been dried off a few weeks before she freshened. It la false economy, ac cording to Professor Hopper, to try to keep cows in nearly constunt produc tion. To allow them to replace the min erals which have gone Into the produc tion of milk, cows that are dry during the pnsture season should receive legume hays and pasture or be al lowed lo grace on a legume pasture. At other times legume baya and silage should be fed to dry cowa, If possible. Regulate Separator in Extreme Hot Weather An additional aid to the keeping quality of cream In summer la the regulation of the separator to deliver a cream testing between 35 and 45 l»er cent. Bacteria act upon the sugar In the aklmmllk. causing souring and the smaller the amount of aklmmllk present the less sugar available for the production of acid. Hence there la a real advantage In separating a richer cream during the summer months. There la no grenter loss of fnt by thia method and a material ad vantage In Improved keeping quality results. Proper cooling la Just ns Important with cream ua with milk, especially Since cream la delivered leas frequent ly and therefore hna greater op|H«r- tunlty to undergo »polling. It should be cooled Immediately after separa tion. Il la especially Important that fresh cream should not be mixed with older cream until It hna been thorough ly cooled, since the addition of warm cream lo cold hastens souring by warming up the whole mass. In the summer, cream should bi delivered nt least three times a week if II Is to get to the creamery In good condition, h Is Important that It be protected from the heat and kept as cool as possible while In transit. This may he done by covering the can wllh a wet blanket or Insulntlng Jacket. In this way It In possible to ship It many times farther than la enns without protection, before r«jch Increase In temperature take# «»Ince.—Exchange. Solving ’Onion” Problem Onion Cavor can be taken out of milk by a rather tedious process dis- cove****, by the Tennessee experiment •4.’ (Ion and hltterweed flavor can he .aken out of cream by a process dis covered by the same Institution, hui the best course Is to keep these flavor» from getting In the milk. Some land should be cleaned of onions by the culturnl methods which will eliminate all hltterweed and then used for a temporary pnsture during the season these weed pests bother. By plowing It as often at, encli two years at the right time In the fall, the onion prob lem will not bother. Sweet clover, the other clovers, some suitable grass and les|>cdcza make the kind of tempo rary pasture for this situation. DAIRY FACTS Minimum losses and more regulat tests are assured where the milk la separated before It becomes cold. • • • Naturalists assert that a caterpillar can ent twice Its own weight in leaves In 24 hours. • • • When planning to build or remodel the dairy barb have at least 32 to 3(1 feet width, outside dimensions. • • • Wooden tanks or concrete tanks that nre Insulated can be used In winter as well as In summer, giving a high quality of milk throughout the year. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Assembled tor Information of Our Readers. THE MARKETS Portland Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, bard wheat, C4c; soft white and western white, 4 6 ft; hard winter, northern spring and western red, 42ftc. H ay—Buying price, t o. b. Portland: Alfalfa. 815 50; valley timothy 515.50 0 1 8 ; eastern Oregon timothy, 5180 18 50; clover, 511; oat hay, f i t ; oats and vetch, 8100 10.80. Butterfat—28c. Eggs— Ranch, 17021c. Cattle— Steers, good, 86.2506.50. Hogs—Good to choice, 87.5008,25. Lamb»—Good to choice, 8505.75. Seattle Wheat — Soft white and western white, 46c; hard winter, western red and northern spring, 44e; bluestem, 63c. Butterfat— 27c. Eggs— Ranch, 15026. Cattle— Choice steers, 8 60 6.50. Hogs—Good to choice, 86.40 0 8.50. Lambs— Choice, 8505.50, Spokane Cattle— Steers, good, 8707.50, Hogs—Good to choice, 88.25. Lambs— Medium to good, 5404.75. Winter eggs nre not the most prof itable eggs for the poultry producer. Fall production of egg« Is more Im portant than winter production, sc- cording to an anulywls of egg prices during the months of Augii«t, Sep tember, October and November, and comparison wllh the winter prices, made by It. E. Cray, extension spe cialist In poultry husbandry at the Ohio state university. "In Fehrnnry Is the time to plan the hatching of pullets for production of eggs next fall during the high price season,” says Cray. "Next winter Is the time for managing the flock In such a way that the egg production which started tn the fall will continue throughout the winter." "Breeding Is the first requirement of pullets that are to mature early, lay good slxed eggs, and continue to pro duce atendlly through the fall and winter months. Careful breeding la becoming more and more Important with general Increases In feed prices and decreases In egg prices. I feel safe In predicting that the next live years will see conditions In the poul try business which will make It nec A box factory was started at Silver- essary I«» Increase ihe production ton last week In the old Potter planing 10 eggs per bird In order to make the mill building. same profit we are making today.” More than 2,500,000 feet of selected Port Orford cedar logs will be loaded for Japanese markets from the Evans Products company plant In Marshfield. Place prospective breeding cock- The Medford Peargrowers associa Kels In "bachelor" quarters at the age tion, an Independent organisation, has of 10 to 12 weeks, counsels Berlej voted to construct 4 packing plant Winton of the Missouri College of Ag riculture. Put the culls In fattening with a capacity of at least 1000 cars. A stubborn fire destroyed three crates for quick growth gains two weeka before sale. Iteinovnl of the warehouses and two coal sheds at Ba males will help prevent crowding and ker and also menaced several other will provide room for 4he pullets to structures before being brought under make -aplri growth. dontroL Aa soon an the young cull chickens Fire destroyed the J. D. Hurst home weigh one and one-fourth to one and one half pounds. they nre ready to fat recently. It was a landmark which ten. They should he placed In fatten will be missed, as it towered on the ing crates, and should receive no feed hillside north of Aurora for more than the first 21 hours. Then feed the fat 40 years. tening bntter lightly for the first day The Missionary Baptists of Oregon or two nt lenst three and preferably gathered In an encampment this week five times a day. ( ’are should he tnken not to over feed und to keep the birds at Buttle lake. A large group attend slightly hungry by giving only what ed from churches In every section of they will clean up In 15 minutes. It the state. Is not considered profitable to fatten Further reduction in sprinkling priv for more than 14 days. ileges was ordered by the city of Ash A good bntter Is made from seven land, due to shortage of storage water. parts of cornmenl and three pnrts of Sprinkling Is permitted now four hours middlings mixed with enough butter milk or sklmtnllk to make the whole on four days each week. Oregon has a larger national guard the consistency of pancake hatter. Or dinarily two pounds of milk to one organisation, on the basis of popula (Miund of dry feed nre used. Neither tion, than any other state In the un grit nor water are required wllh this ion, according to announcement at the ration. guard headquarters In Salem. Keep Young Cockerels in “Bachelor” Quarters Green Ducks Always in Demand at Fair Prices Ducks require about the same care that Is given to geese. However, ducks are easier to mate and, generally speaking, easier to manage. It Is best to keep standard bred ducks, the mark et will pay more for uniform quality, the carcass Is bigger and besides there • Is a ready demand for breeding stock of the more popular breeds. Young ducks require fresh water tu drink, hut do not require It to puddle in and should not he nllowed to spoil the drinking water In this way. To fatten young ducks lo the green duck stnge, they must be kept In ynrds or pens which are clean and sanitary, and fed every ounce they will con sume of the following ration: Three parts cornmeal. Two pnrts low grade flour (or mid dlings). One pnrt hrnn. One-lmlf part beef scrap, to which should be added 3 per cent fine grit nnd 10 per cent green feed. Feed this ns a mash, moistened with milk, three or four times a day —all they will eat. This mixture, fed properly, will make a three to four pound green duck In ten to twelve weeks. Poultry Hygiene The task of poultry hygiene Is two fold because It alms not only to pro mote health hut also to protect nnd de fend It. In connection with the form er, conditions nre sought to be estab lished under which the vital functions of the animal hody can he performed with the least hindrance nnd at a maximum efficiency, while the latter Is designed to either ward off actual causes of disease, to Interrupt their free movements, to bring about their destruction. Mrs. Fannie Dyer, one of Bandon's first citizens. Is dead at the age of 91 years and 4 months. She was the wife of George M. Dyer, who was one of the founders of Bandon in 1886. An almond which lodged in the throat and later went into the lung of the Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Gregory of Coquille caused the boy's death In Ashland recently. , Bean growers of Lane county have voted to pay pickers three-fourths of a cent per pound this year with a bonus optional with the grower. The price last year was one-half cent more. Mose E. Duran of Heppnec is suf fering with an Infected eye. While milking, a cow hit him in the eye with her tail. Medical attention was neglected and the infection followed. A horde of brown, yellow and black butterflies has descended on the Cra ter lake and Diamond lake areas. The insects gather in damp spots, and fly Into automobile radiators in great numbers. The Chris Kenney residence, one of the first houses to be built In Jack sonville, has been destroyed by fire. Many antiques were burned, among them a mahogany bedroom suite val ued at |3UO. Taps has sounded for the once vig orous Bandon post No. ' 1, Grand Army of the Republic. At a meeting of the poet recently thp two remaining mem bers turned over all equipment to the American Legion. Work will soon begin on the Pitts burgh-St. Helens market road and the Nehalem highway In laying a hot oil macadam pavement. Several miles of this was laid in the Nehalam last year and Is standing up well. Page 8 MighlyMounidns Darjeeling, With Peaks of the Himalayas In the Background. (P rep a red by th e N ational Geographie Society, Wai«hloffton. D. C -) OUNTS Kamet and Klnchln junga In the Himalayas have taken the place of Mount Everest this summer In the Interest of the world's mountain climb ers. Mount Kamet, 25.445 feet high, was successfully sealed by a British party on June 21. Klnchlnjunga, 27,- 815 feet high, Is now being attacked by a party of Germans. Heretofore, Mount Kamet has sel dom been heard of when the earth's highest pinnacles are being discussed, hut nevertheless It Is one of the select little group of Asiatic peaks that push up farther above sea level than moun tains In any other part of the earth. Although It ranks thirtieth among the amazing group of mountain giants that extend along the Himalaya chain and Into China, It Is not greatly surpassed In height by any of Its fellows except Everest. 29.002 feet high; Goodwin Austen, 28,250; Klnchlnjunga, 27.815; Dhaulagiri, 20.828. and Gosal Than, 20.305. All of these super-giants among mountains are In Nepal except Goodwin Austen, which Is In northern Kashmir. The peak of Mount Kamlt Is situated Just a stone's throw south of the Tibetan border. In the United Provinces of India. Near by Is Nanda Devi, which tops It by less than 200 feet. These comparisons boll d >wn to the fact that Kamet Is the third highest mountain In the Brit- Ish empire; and by virtue of this fact It was considered well worth a seri ous attack by mountain climbers. While Mounts Everest and Klnchln junga are near Darjeeling, hill capital of Bengal, Mount Kamet Is 000 miles to the northwest near Simla, bill cap ital of India. It lies In the Garhwal district of the United Provinces, 130 miles due east of Simla near the eightieth meridian of longitude. This area came Into British possession In 1814 ns a result of the Gurka war (with Nepal). How Mount Kamet Is Reached. The railhead used In expeditions to Mount Kamet Is at Kathgodam, tn the United Provinces, at the southern edge of the Himalayan foothills. From there travel Is overland through val leys nnd up steep slopes to Ranlkhet. a hill village comparable In location to Simla. From Ranlkhet the way leads over rough country and across a number of deep river gorges, to the vlllnge of Nltl at 12.000 feet altitude. From this point both yaks and coolie hearers are used. Although numerous attempts to scale Mount Knmet have been made since 1855, no one succeeded In reach ing the summit until this summer. The latest, expedition prior to the one thnt has Just scaled the peak was led In 1920 hy Dr. A. M. Kellns. He reached an altitude of 23.000 feet, hut hnd to turn back because his native assistants were suffering from moun tain sickness. On the slopes of Mount Knmet Is one of the chief head water glaciers of the Onngea river. Klnchlnjungn Is bigger game for the mountain climber than Kamet, both because of Its extreme height and the steepness of Its slopes. It Is the third highest mountnln In the world, renchlng upwnrd five and one-third miles above sen level. Of the three highest penks— Everest. Goodwin Austen, and Klnchlnjunga— the latter Is most Inaccessible. It lies 45 miles north of Darjeeling In an air line, but the road that one must travel across canyons, over ridges and around Intervening penks. Is much longer, Darjeeling has heen headquarters for the several expeditions that have tried unsuccessfully to scale Klnchln junga In past years. Like Simla, 700 miles fnrther west, and Srinagar In Kashmir, Darjeeling Is a godsend to M perspiring Europeans who must spend the hot period In India. But It la more than a cowl retreat: it Is a matchless observation post, when the clouds permit, for the mightiest moun tain scenery that the worid affords. And the outstanding sight to the north ward, across deep chasms and beyond tier after tier of foothlllls; Is the mighty Klnchlnjunga, buttressed by half a dozen peaks from 20,000 to 24,000 feet In altitude. Darjeeling stands on a sort of stage before and above which sweep the amphitheater slopes of Himalayan foothills that rises about 7,000 feet from the Belgian plains. On the side toward the mountains the ridge drops away for approximately 6,000 feet forming what might. In American ter* mlnology, be called “the Grand Can yon of the Ranjit," but whose heavily forested slopes and tropically luxu riant floor earns In India the more poetic name of “Vale of Ranjit." It Is across thia titanic valley and beyond over ranges of foothills, lower than that on which Darjeeling sits, that one looks to mighty Kmchin- Junga. The eye therefore sees a rise of approximately 7,000 feet, a range of altitude to be seen In few If any other places In the world, since most of the highest mountains rise from lofty plateaus. Darjeeling on the Foothills. Darjeeling has characteristics un like those of most towns. It can hard I ly be said to have streets. Most of the buildings face on paths or walks which run along the main ridge and out onto Its minor spurs, or work their way by serpentine routes to other paths that cling to the steep sides of the slopes. Steps, too, serve in place of roads, connecting terraces that rise one above the other. One of the few carriage roads Is a driveway that skirts the lower end of the main ridge and leads below to the suburb Lebong and its barracks for British soldiers. The villas, bungalows, shops, gov ernment buildings, hospitals, churches, schools, barracks and native huts that make up Darjeeling and its suburb form pendnnt communities, like giant saddle-hags thrown over the ridge. Dwellings are scattered down the slopes for a thousand feet, the ground floors of one Her on a level with the roofs of the next tier below. I f one must cover much space In Darjeeling he rides on pony back cr Is carried in a litter hy four servants. Looking Across to the Peaks. Standing on the Darjeeling ridge when the air Is free of mists, the ob server first looks down, deep down 6,000 feet into a river gorge choked with tropical Jungle. Then his eyes rise to the rice fields reflecting the blue sky and the tea plantations. Up and up to the Temperate zone trees, then to the pine forests crowning lower mountains. The observer peeps over half a dozen Intervening ridges Into the dark mysterious depths of valleys. Then he sees the hare up lands above the tree line and finally the beginning of the snows. Long white glaciers drape the mountain mass whose two-pronged peak half fills the sky. The world seems to be walled on the north. There Is no such thing as a horizon; Klnchlnjunga closes the view like an exquisite screen. Darjeeling well earns Its popularity ns a summer resort. While on the steamy plains of Bengal, a few miles away, the mercury climbs In summer above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, It sel dom tops 75 degrees at Darjeeling; and In winter 35 degrees marks the low point of the temperature range. The unpleasant feature of the weather Is furnished by the heavy rains. Ten feet of water fall each year, and somu of the storms are violent.
